El Lun 24 Sep 2007 21:38, chester c young escribió:
> I'm getting lots of delimited files from Excel and MySQL users that,
> mid-file, begin truncating lines if ending in null values.
> 
> for example:
> 1781: "one","two","three",,,,,,
> 1782: "one","two","three",,
> 1783: "one","two","three",,
> 
> (delimited files from Open Office are well behaved)
> 
> is there any way to handle this apparently standard aberration in PG?
>
You need to normalize the csv files filtering its contents with some script
...
...
$fields_in_table=9;
while (<>) {
 chomp;
 @f=split(",");
 for $i ( 0 .. $fields_in_table ) {
    print $f[$i].",";
 };
 print "\n";
};
...
...

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Luis

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